Fistulogram is an X-ray test that makes it possible to analyse the path of fistulas, pathological communications that can form between two hollow organs (e.g. between the rectum and the bladder or between the rectum and the vagina) or…
With "polytrauma" or "polytraumatized" in medicine we mean by definition an injured patient who presents associated injuries to two or more parts of the body (skull, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, limbs) with current or potential…
Medicine for major emergencies and catastrophes ("disaster medicine") is the medical area that analyzes and includes all the medical and first aid procedures that are implemented in the event of a major emergency or catastrophe, i.e. all…
The Emergency Room (sometimes Emergency Department or Emergency Room, hence the acronyms ED and ER) is an operating unit of hospitals expressly equipped to accommodate emergency cases, divide patients based on the seriousness of the…
Let's talk about metabolism. Our body receives, stores and uses a certain number of nutrients depending on the body's needs: our physical shape is determined by a number of factors, including energy consumption, food intake, physical…
Varicose veins and sport: everyone will have noticed, especially in the legs of some sportsmen and women, the presence of veins that are more pronounced than others, tortuous and with a more intense colouring, very much in contrast to the…